WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                    Ch. 122

adjudication, correctional supervision, custodial treatment or
confinement under Title 12 of the Health - General Article,
rehabilitation, or release of persons suspected, charged, or
convicted of a crime or relieved of criminal punishment by a
verdict of not criminally responsible, OR IS RESPONSIBLE FOR
CRIMINAL IDENTIFICATION ACTIVITIES AND THE COLLECTION, STORAGE,
AND DISSEMINATION OF CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD INFORMATION, and
which allocates a substantial portion of its annual budget to any
of these functions. The term does not include the Juvenile
Services Agency or a juvenile court, but it does include the
following agencies, when exercising jurisdiction over criminal
matters or alternative dispositions of criminal matters, or
criminal history record information:

(1)  State, county, and municipal police departments
and agencies, sheriffs' offices, correctional facilities, jails,
and detention centers;

(2)  Any agency required to report to the central
repository under § 12-107 or § 12-112 of the Health - General
Article;

(3)  The offices of the Attorney General, the State's
attorneys, and any other person authorized by law to prosecute
persons accused of criminal offenses; or

(4)  The Administrative Office of the Courts, the
Court of Appeals, the Court of Special Appeals, the circuit
courts, the District Court of Maryland, and the offices of the
clerks of these courts.

(g) "Criminal justice information system" means the
equipment (including computer hardware and software), facilities,
procedures, agreements, and personnel used in the collection,
processing, preservation, and dissemination of criminal history
record information.

(h) "Disseminate" means to transmit criminal history record
information in any oral or written form. The term does not
include:

(1)  The transmittal of such information within a
criminal justice agency;

(2)  The reporting of such information as required by
§ 747 of this article; or

(3)  The transmittal of such information between
criminal justice agencies in order to permit the initiation of
subsequent criminal justice proceedings against a person relating
to the same offense.

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